PENNY POSTAGE.
AMERICA AND BRITAIN.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—
■ Received * June 4. 10 p.m.)'
London, June 4. In the House of Commons the Post-master-General (Mr. Sydney Buxton) was cheered on announcing that America had agreed to his proposal for Anglo-American penny postage to operate from October 1.
It was Mr. Heuniker Heaton who first suggested that all letters passing between the United Kingdom and America should be Id, instead of 2jd, as at present. _At the last Postal Union Congress, the United States were in favour of a universal penny poet, while the British Government was not. Mr. Heaton argued that the increased number of letters would bring greater financial results than the present rate. Four million English letters to Canada, which pay only Id, are. he pointed out, now landed at New York for transit to Canada, but letters for New York itself, landed by the same boat, cost 2£d.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13768, 5 June 1908, Page 5
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